Work Experience

Many MBA programmes require a major paper, called a thesis. This paper ascertains that you have an accepted level of mastery of your field. Some programmes offer the option of an internship and thesis. Check to see if your MBA programme has a thesis or internship requirement and whether the programme allows you the flexibility to choose between the two. If you have less work experience, you may just want an MBA programme that allows and requires an internship.

An idea that began to take shape in Bengaluru through online Hungry Zone way back in 2006 has now around 3,000 restaurants on board offering 52 cuisines and 3 lakh dishes to choose from. Ritesh Dwivedy , founder & CEO, Just Eat talks to Asit Manohar about his upcoming plans for the venture. What prompted you to incept Just Eat? It is said that best ideas are those born out of personal experiences. And it was one such experience from which...

BANGALORE/MUMBAI: Early this month, Google India wrapped up a new search at IIMs in Ahmedabad and Kolkata. It walked into the placement round for 'laterals' for the first time ever and hired a few. In campus placement context, 'laterals' refer to students who had work experience before joining the course. Google declined to share numbers, but a spokesperson said it hired more laterals this year than last and that the number of such hires was in double...

NEW DELHI: A management qualification from a B-school may not guarantee a lucrative job, as companies now want their potential employees to have sweated it out in the corporate corridors before going for the MBA degree. "A management graduate with no work experience may be poised to go nowhere with over 80% of potential employers of MBAs are looking for candidates with at least a year's prior work experience," according to...

NEW DELHI: A large number of professionals, having around ten years of work experience, would look at moving out after at least two years at their current employment, says a survey. About 52 per cent of the total number of mid-career professionals (those with 1-10 years of work experience) would consider moving to another job within two years, according to a survey by professional networking site LinkedIn. Besides, nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of the same group said...

MUMBAI: From next year, students of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad are likely to rub shoulders with a more diverse set of batchmates, including foreigners. Even as MBA aspirants gear up to crack the Common Admission Test on Sunday, IIM-A is ready with new initiatives to widen diversity in the classroom. Apart from wooing foreigners , the elite B-school is introducing deferred admissions — offering guaranteed...

With placement offers pouring in, the salary dipstick has never looked this robust. If lateral placements are an indication, this is just the beginning of more offers to come, says Sapna Agarwal , head of Career and Development at the Indian Institute of Management , Bangalore . The placements scene has been quite good, with a considerable number of pre-placement offers as well as lateral offers being rolled out....

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that candidates belonging to the reserved category cannot be given relaxation in the mandatory work experience required for a government job. A Bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Suresh Kait held that the apex court ruling pertaining to giving relaxation in the minimum marks required for government jobs do not extend to work experience. "It is totally different from the problem at hand where eligibility...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The number of Indians appearing for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) hit an all time high in the year 2013, a year when applicants for the Common Admission Test (CAT) have dipped to a seven-year low. Together, the two numbers capture the story of the changing management education landscape in India at a time when the economy is slowing down appreciably. The CAT is the main entry point for freshers or...

MUMBAI: From next year, students of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad are likely to rub shoulders with a more diverse set of batchmates, including foreigners. Even as MBA aspirants gear up to crack the Common Admission Test on Sunday, IIM-A is ready with new initiatives to widen diversity in the classroom. Apart from wooing foreigners , the elite B-school is introducing...

KOLKATA: IIM Calcutta's 462-strong batch of 2012-14 has around 77% of students with previous work experience, as compared to 68% in the last batch. Students with more than a year of work-experience now constitute almost 65% of the batch compared to around 50% in the last couple of years. Around 13% of students have work experience of more than 3 years, with some as high as 8 years of experience. The average work...

Ten years ago, if you had chucked a stone in the campuses of India's premier Bschools, chances are it would have hit a student with a BTech degree. If you were to do the same experiment today, the likeliness of the stone finding a doctor, a former soldier, an aspiring politician, a fashion designer or even a journalist is pretty high. Today, the buzzword in B-schools, like in Indian Inc, is diversity. "During the selection, aspirants are not only evaluated...

MUMBAI: Amazon's 'made-for-India' hiring strategy may soon go global. The e-commerce giant is exploring the idea of rolling out Building Operations Leadership (BOLD), its MBA hiring programme unique to India, to other countries as well. "BOLD was launched specifically for India in 2011. Now we have been talking about introducing it in other markets as well," Raj Raghavan , director, HR, Amazon India, told ET. He declined to...

By Sue Ann Vaz, Head - Consumer & SMB Business, First Advantage Rajesh (name changed), a professional working with a big IT firm in India was recently laid off on account of un-bankable past experience. The economic fluctuations in the IT Industry had forced firms to hire candidates with work experience while the number of fresh graduate hiring has reduced. Rajesh took the easier way out by paying a small firm a decent amount of money to fake his...

AHMEDABAD: Indian Institue of Management Ahmedabad's ninth batch has 15.29% women students this year. The one year full time post graduate programme in Management for Executives (PGPX 2014-15) was inaugurated on Sunday by Prof. Ajay Pandey, Dean (Programmes). This year IIMA gets 13 women students out of total 85 students that joined PGPX 2014-15 on Sunday. This year students has a industry mix from various backgrounds like education, energy/power, financial services , FMCG ,...

By Devashish Chakravarty Why do you want to do an MBA? If you are energised by your present work or subject of study, you will be better off becoming a specialist. However, if you want to be a generalist, deal with people and take responsibility for business outcomes, an MBA is the way to go. Here are the steps that can help you make the most of it. 1. List the B-schools Do you want to do your MBA abroad or in India? The...

KOLKATA: The Indian School of Business (ISB), with campuses at Hyderabad and Mohali, which recently launched the "Early Entry Option" for its flagship post graduate programme in management (PGP), designed to address the increasing demand for management education from talented fresh graduates/ post graduates and those with less than two years' of work experience. Candidates selected through the 'Early Entry Option', will secure a deferred...

KOLKATA: When he joins McKinsey & , US as strategic consulting associate later this year, Moid Mohammed will be armed with an MBA from Columbia Business School . Nothing unusual about that, except that this is his second MBA, which he opted for five years after completing his first one from IIM Lucknow. One MBA is good. But two are even better. That's the feeling among a growing band of professionals like Moid,...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The number of Indians appearing for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) hit an all time high in the year 2013, a year when applicants for the Common Admission Test (CAT) have dipped to a seven-year low. Together, the two numbers capture the story of the changing management education landscape in India at a time when the economy is slowing down appreciably. The CAT is the main entry point for freshers or those...

The race to land one of the 3,335 seats across the 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is set to pick up speed with the Common Admission Test ( CAT ) results to be announced on January 14. The individual IIMs have decided on their selection criteria; the call letters will go out later based on how students have fared overall. Sreeradha D Basu brings you a quick take on what the top six older IIMs have in store across...